Shadows of Origins
A couple tries,
working with the charms
of denial that descend
into vengeance,
returning to what was.
This is what they do as
they lance the boil
into an inversion that
passes for
conversation
while working between
each one's past:
a father's tantrums,
a mother's martyrdom.
They carry the primal
of their personal jungles,
boarding with the baggage
of past reality.
209th Weekly Poetry Contest